Seán Canney (Galway East, Independent) | Oireachtas source

While I am getting that answer, I will go back to some of the other things mentioned by Senator Conway-Walsh. She mentioned roads and flooding. A huge number of roads have been raised throughout the country to create better access. When I was down in Mayo I spoke to some of the engineers. They have got a huge amount of money for raising roads, but that comes from the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport. That is an ongoing issue. This is what I was talking about earlier. Three road programmes are under way this year. These include the standard road scheme, the flood relief schemes on local and regional roads and there are national primary and secondary road schemes as well. The engineers received further funding for repairing roads as a result of flood damage.